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The Stanford Center for Human and Planetary Health advances solutions that improve both health and sustainability.

Explore our Focus Areas

The Center for Human and Planetary Health aims to support all research, education, and impact at Stanford that connects human health with the environment. We have identified four main themes where this work typically happens, with additional areas continually emerging.

Climate and Health

Promoting the health of vulnerable populations by exploring climate change mitigation and adaptation solutions, addressing issues that arise from extreme weather, wildfires, natural disasters, extreme heat, eco-anxiety, displacement, and other climate-related impacts.

Image credit: Moniruzzaman Sazal / Climate Visuals Countdown

Pollution and Health

Understanding and reducing the harm from pollution on the health of humans and the environment by redesigning business models and processes to reduce air, ocean, and land pollution, support health, and build more resilient and equitable economies.

Image credit: Abir Abdullah / Climate Visuals Countdown

Disease Ecology in a Changing World

Investigating the ecological, environmental and socioeconomic determinants of diseases transmitted through the environment, projecting their future distributions under scenarios of climate change, and developing ecological solutions to improve human health and protect the health of the environment that underpins it.

Image credit: Anthony Ochieng / Climate Visuals Countdown

Food Systems, Health and the Environment

Generating knowledge to develop a food system that provides healthy affordable human nutrition while supporting thriving biodiverse terrestrial and aquatic environments, and reduces carbon emissions from the agricultural sector.

Image credit: Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment

HPH by the Numbers

Average # of Stanford research projects on HPH topics per year

Total # of Stanford publications on HPH topics since 2021

Average # of HPH courses offered per year

HPH seed grants to interdisciplinary research teams since 2017

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